Connecting to Snowflake

Establishing a Connection shows how to authenticate to Snowflake and configure any necessary connection properties. You can also configure cmdlet capabilities through the available Connection properties, from data modeling to firewall traversal. The Advanced Settings section shows how to set up more advanced configurations and troubleshoot connection errors.

Connecting from PowerShell

The CData Cmdlets PowerShell Module for Snowflake provides a familiar way to interact with Snowflake from PowerShell. The cmdlets provide a standard PowerShell interface The CData cmdlets enable you to work with Snowflake using standard PowerShell objects; you can chain the cmdlets to each other or other cmdlets in pipelines. The cmdlets also support PowerShell debug streams.

Data Manipulation with Cmdlets

See Establishing a Connection to learn how to get started with the Connect-Snowflake cmdlet. You can then pass the SnowflakeConnection object returned to other cmdlets for accessing data:

• Select-Snowflake
• Add-Snowflake
• Update-Snowflake
• Remove-Snowflake

Executing SQL from PowerShell

You can execute any SQL query with the Invoke-Snowflake cmdlet.

Accessing Debug Output from Streams

See Capturing Errors and Logging to obtain the debug output through PowerShell streams.

PowerShell Version Support

The standard cmdlets are supported in PowerShell 2, 3, 4, and 5.

Snowflake Version Support

The cmdlet enables standards-based access to all Snowflake editions. You can authenticate with a Snowflake user, SSO, or SSL client authentication. After authenticating, you can execute standard SQL queries to Snowflake tables or set QueryPassthrough to use any of the available Snowflake SQL syntax. For example, you can use extended projection to project columns over semistructured data.